In their final matches of the regular season, the Marathon Dolphins and Key West Conchs split wins on the courts of Marathon’s Community Park on April 8. The Fins boys won 6-1, then the Conch girls did the same.
Ben Delostrinos won the No. 4 singles match for Key West, then the Fins swept the rest. Adrien Holdinga, Tanner Snowden, Carlos Lezcano and Graham Murphy all had singles wins while the teams of Holdinga and Lezcano and Matthew Delgado and Kasimir Kryzpkowski took the wins in the doubles matches.
In girls action, Marathon won their only point by default as the Conchs did not bring a No. 5 singles player. They went on to win the other six points the good old-fashioned way, by defeating their opponents. Hamida Muhsinova, Monea McLeod, Amina Erik and Durdona Oblokulova won in singles, then Muhsinova and McLeod plus Erik and Oblokulov teamed up to bring in two more wins for the Conchs in doubles.
April 10 would be the final day Keys prep teams played prior to the postseason. Key West traveled to Tavernier where the Coral Shores Hurricanes won in boys action 4-3 before the Conchs did the same in girls. Hurricanes Aidan Althouse, Zach Bolano, Max Smith, Kai Redruello, Vanessa Gabriel and Chloe Koval won their singles matches. Althouse and Bolano plus Redruello and Gabriel teamed up for doubles wins for Coral Shores. The Conchs had wins from Ben Delostrinos, Mason Martel, Eva Drozdetskaia and Gabriela Aguero in singles plus a pair of doubles wins. Hubert Konopka teamed up with Martel while Drozdetskaia and Aguero worked together to add points in their doubles matches.
District tournaments began April 14 for 2A Key West and Coral Shores, then the following day for 1A Marathon (results not available at presstime). All three teams have strong contenders to place high enough to make it to the next round, which begins the following week.
